Chadwick Bell Spring Summer 2013

I’ve cut down quite a lot on the number of fashion shows and presentations that I make time to see. That being said, the only show I actually went to during fashion week was the incomparable Chadwick Bell’s.

Each season Bell develops his collection with a fantasy woman in mind, and for his latest Spring Summer 2013 collection, “Nirvana” is his mot du jour. Finding a balance between “austerity and adornment,” Bell’s fantasy woman, as he describes her, “…is on a crusade for clarity, stripping down the artifice, and exposing a truer self.”

Are we in love with this woman? Emphatically and wholeheartedly, YES…and as Bell’s collection is inextricably linked to this woman, we are thoroughly smitten with it as well. Both symbolic and manifest, contrasts of light and dark, soft and hard, protection and vulnerability are masterfully expressed in airy georgette and viscose set against structured leather and cotton. Bell manages to resolve these contrasts beautifully, rendering all whole with a deft hand and enlightened eye.

Seems to us that our female WIJW fans might consider Chadwick Bell’s collection, (and the empowered story it tells), as they proceed on their own journey toward sartorial and personal enlightenment!

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